This quick and simple recipe for creamy baked peach chicken is perfect for a busy weeknight. With the sweet and tangy flavors of fresh peaches and tender chicken, it’s sure to become a family favorite. 

While I was working on our roasted peach chicken recipe, I kept thinking that a creamy baked version would be so good! So I set to work on testing a creamy peach chicken recipe and this is it! It is so delicious and a perfect way to use those juicy summer peaches! We pan sear the chicken first and then let it finish cooking in the oven. It’s so easy!

Last year we ordered our first box of peaches from Pearson Farm, and we will be doing that from now on! Peach season is so short here in Utah and those sweet Georgia peaches are so dang good!

Now don’t get me wrong, I am allllllll about using peaches in sweet dessert recipes! Those are some of absolute faves! Our peach crisp is phenomenal! Then there are the peach cobbler and peach dumplings. I could go on and on, but there is something so unexpectedly delightful about peaches in a savory dish. The peaches really shine in this creamy peach chicken recipe!

Ingredients for Creamy Peach Chicken

This recipe requires ingredients for a chicken marinade, a roasting sauce and a dry chicken rub. There is nothing too fancy or complicated, but everything combined is so tasty. Here is everything you will need:

• Chicken Breasts: We prefer to use bone-in and skin-on chicken breasts for maximum flavor, but often end up using boneless skinless chicken breasts for ease.
• Marinade: Peach Preserves and Heavy Cream
• Roasting Sauce: White Wine Vinegar, Thyme (fresh or dried), Dijon Mustard, Olive Oil, Shallots, Garlic, Sea Salt, Black Pepper and Peaches
• Dry Rub: Chili Powder, Smoked Paprika, Cinnamon, Salt and Pepper

The measurements needed for each ingredient can be found in the recipe card at the end of the post.

How to Make Creamy Peach Chicken

If you’re looking for a quick and easy weeknight dinner, then add this chicken recipe to your menu this week! It is full of flavor and simple to make. Here is your step by step guide for making the recipe:

1. Marinate: Add the peach preserves, cream and chicken to a ziploc bag and squish to combine. Let the chicken marinate in the fridge for at least an hour, up to overnight.
2. Prep: When you’re ready to cook it, pull the chicken out of the marinade and save the marinade. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F and pat the chicken breasts dry.
3. Rub: Combine all the ingredients for the rub in a small bowl and stir to combine. Rub the chicken all over with the rub mixture.
4. Make the Sauce: Whisk all the ingredients for the sauce together in a separate bowl and set aside.
5. Sear: Heat a large cast

These simple ground beef tacos are our go-to on busy weeknights! Perfectly seasoned, juicy, and ready in minutes. Add your favorite toppings, pile them high, and dinner’s done before you know it!

There’s just something about taco night, isn’t there? It’s fun, easy, and everyone gets to make their tacos just how they like them.

There’s a lot going on in life lately. I don’t know how I missed the adulting adult children memo, but it’s actually harder (imho) to parent adults vs small children. It’s a different hard as there’s a lot of moving parts with college, life, etc. and with a high schooler and elementary school child as well I’ve been digging in deep for quick and easy dinner ideas that can reheat well for leftovers too. So I’m back to the basics, ground beef tacos!

What Makes These Tacos So Good

Quick and Easy: The taco filling comes together in about 20 minutes with simple pantry ingredients, making this an easy dinner you can pull off even on busy nights.

Restaurant Flavors at Home: A boost of tomato paste and water gives the seasoned beef that saucy, rich texture you get from your favorite taco spot…no dry beef crumbles here!

Family Friendly: Mild enough for picky eaters but flavorful enough to impress grown-ups.

Budget Friendly: A pound of ground beef stretches to feed a family of 5. Thanks to the seasoning and sauce, and hearty toppings (like lettuce and cheese) make every taco satisfying.

Meal Prep: The seasoned beef reheats beautifully, making leftovers perfect for nachos, taco bowls, burritos, or taco salads the next day or throughout the week.

Ingredients You’ll Need

Taco Beef

• Ground Beef: The hearty base of the taco filling. Browns and develops flavor while absorbing the seasoning for juicy, flavorful meat.
• Taco Seasoning: Adds the bold, classic taco flavor with a balanced mix of spices like chili powder, cumin, and paprika. It seasons the beef and builds depth. You can make our homemade recipe or use a store-bought blend.
• Water: Simmered with the seasoning to help it evenly coat the meat and create a saucy mixture that keeps the beef from drying out.
• Tomato Paste: Intensifies savory, tomato-rich flavor while thickening the sauce so it clings to the beef and doesn’t drip out of the tacos.

Tacos

• Lettuce (Romaine): Adds freshness, crisp texture, and cool contrast to the warm meat keeping each bite feeling balanced instead of heavy.
• Tomatoes: Juicy and slightly acidic, they brighten up the tacos and add moisture and color.
• Red Onion: Brings sharpness and crunch that cuts through rich flavors and wakes up the whole taco.
• Cheese (Colby Jack, Monterey Jack or Pepper Jack): Melts

Busy Day Ground Beef and Potatoes

This simple and delicious one pot recipe features ground beef and potatoes cooked together with flavorful seasonings for an easy and hearty meal. Perfect for a busy weeknight dinner!

This is a recipe Cade and I would make when we first got married and lately I’ve been in the biggest cooking rut. It’s not even that I don’t want to cook, it’s just that nothing feels inspiring and nothing sounds good. So, I’ve been going back to my roots and making some simple comfort foods that everyone will eat and take no brain cells from me.

Ingredients for Ground Beef and Potatoes

Onion and peppers taste good when you pair them with classic ground beef and potatoes! We add a few seasonings and you have an easy ground beef dinner recipe they whole family will love. Here are all the ingredients you need:

• Canola Oil: helps cook the potatoes until golden and crispy
• Yukon Gold Potatoes: you can peel them or not and dice them into 1/4-inch cubes
• Ground Beef: I usually go with 85/15 for good flavor. You can use more lean ground beef if desired, or substitute it with ground turkey or ground chicken.
• Onion: just a yellow onion works great
• Red Bell Pepper: you could also grab a yellow or orange bell pepper
• Worcestershire Sauce: adds rich umami flavor
• Ketchup: adds flavor and a touch of sweetness
• Liquid Smoke: adds smokiness
• Dijon Mustard: adds flavor
• Seasonings: Smoked Paprika, Garlic Powder, Dried Oregano, Kosher Salt and Ground Black Pepper
• Parsley: adds a fresh pop of flavor

How to Make Skillet Ground Beef and Potatoes

You only need one pan to make this family-friendly meal! Grab your cast iron skillet and let’s get cookin’!

1. Brown the Potatoes: Add oil to a large cast iron skillet and heat over high heat. when the oil is shimmering, reduce the heat to medium high and add the potatoes. Season them with salt and stir to coat. Let them cook until browned, stir often until the potatoes are tender.
2. Cook the Ground Beef: Remove the potatoes from the skillet and add the ground beef and break it up to cook.
3. Sauté the Onions and Peppers: Push the meat to the sides of the pan and add the onions. Stir until they soften and then add the bell peppers and cook until soft. Drain any grease if needed.
4. Combine: Add all the rest of the ingredients (including the potatoes) to the large skillet and continue to cook until the potatoes are tender.
5. Season: Give the dish one last hit of salt and pepper until you get the flavor you want. Serve it hot and top it with some fresh parsley.

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7 Min Crispy Air Fryer Salmon Bites w/ Mango Salsa

This easy 7 minute Air Fryer Salmon Bites recipe with Strawberry Mango Avocado Salsa are so crispy and so good! Crispy on the outside, tender inside, our salmon bites are an easy recipe, with healthy salmon tossed in a smoky-sweet spice blend with a vibrant mango, strawberry and avocado salsa!

In under 10 minutes you can be eating this air-fryed to crispy perfection salmon recipe, because we all know hangry happens.

Listen, fish isn’t for everyone, previously myself included, but I’m working so hard to change that and it’s slowly becoming one of my favorite proteins! It’s light and flaky, always tender, and cooks SO fast. I thought I had a few good salmon recipes, but this is the best salmon I have literally ever had.

I love that it’s high in protein and when baked in the air fryer it’s texture is heavenly! One of my new FAVORITE recipes for salmon is our smokey salmon bites with a fresh mango salsa! They are perfectly tender and caramelized bite-sized salmon pieces. So GOOD! I could eat these salmon bites every day!

Two Years of Testing…

I’ve been testing our air fryer salmon recipe for over 2 years now and I’ve discovered the absolute best dry rub recipe that takes this salmon from delicious to down right addicting. In fact, it is the best easy summer dinner recipe ever!! Yes, it is possible to make salmon in the air fryer without drying it out and yes, even our kids, the seafood haters love it!

Fresh Strawberry Mango and Avocado salsa

Our fruit salsa takes a regular salmon rice bowl from good to amazing!

This fruit salsa is the kind of sweet topping even picky eaters love!

No oven, no mess, and totally weeknight-friendly! This is a quick, healthy dinner that doesn’t feel like just getting something on the table.

Ingredients for Salmon Bites

All you need are simple pantry staples to make this dry rub for salmon.

In the next section, you can see all the ingredients you will need for the mango salsa– you will want to hit the produce section for those ingredients. Here is everything you will need:

For the Salmon

• Salmon– Look for skinless salmon filets to save yourself time on skin removal then just cut them into evenly sized, small cubes !
• Brown Sugar– A hint of sweetness, but it also helps to caramelize into a mouthwatering crust on the salmon.
• Spices– Smoked Paprika, Chili Powder, Garlic Powder, O

Instant Pot Cilantro Lime Chicken Burrito Bowl

Instant Pot Cilantro Lime Chicken Burrito Bowl is a quick and easy dinner recipe the whole family loves. A bright cilantro lime rice with flavorful Tex-Mex chicken, beans and lots of gooey cheese!

When we’re short on time and ingredients, this is a go-to meal at our house, and yes, you can totally swap any meats, beans or add-ins that you’d like! It’s like making a delicious Chipotle burrito bowl in the comfort of your own kitchen!

I’m finding that the older my kids get the more I desperately need quick and easy dinner ideas as we pretty much live a life of errands lately. It’s soccer, piano, clothes shopping because heaven forbid anyone stay the same size for more than a month and on and on. Anyone feel me?

Ingredients for Chicken Burrito Bowls

• Chicken Breasts: You want boneless, skinless chicken breasts and then chop them into bite-size chunks
• Oil: used to sauté the chicken
• Seasonings: Cumin, Onion Powder, Garlic Powder, Black Pepper, Kosher Salt and Chili Powder
• White Rice: just simple long-grain white rice works great
• Garlic: adds flavor
• Chicken Broth: cooks the rice and adds more flavor
• Green Chiles: adds flavor
• Cilantro: adds bright herby freshness and flavor
• Lime: You’ll want to use the zest and juice for maximum flavor.
• Pinto Beans: Keep it simple by using canned beans. Swap for black beans if desired.
• Colby Jack Cheese: You can’t have a burrito bowl without the melty cheese! Colby jack is our favorite, but you can also go with Monterey jack or pepper jack.

The measurements for each ingredient can be found in the recipe card down below. Once you serve up the chicken and rice, top with all your favorite burrito toppings. See section below for ideas.

Cilantro Lime Chicken Burrito Bowls

• Step 1: Chicken

Start by seasoning your chicken (onion powder, garlic powder, cumin, salt, pepper and chili powder) and then cook it in a little olive oil in your Instant Pot in “sauté mode”. You won’t need to cook it long, just enough to get a little sear on the outside, about 3 minutes.

• Step 2: Everything Else

Add the rice and garlic and stir it with the chicken for about 20-30 seconds. Then you add the rest of the ingredients (broth, cilantro, lime zest, lime juice and pinto beans) and change your Instant Pot to “high pressure”. Give everything a good stir and place the lid on the Instant Pot. Set the valve to “seal” and cook for 7 minutes.